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Guide to Using Excel 2003 For Basic Statistical Applications
To Accompany Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, 7th Ed. Chapter 1: The Where, Why and How of Data Collection By Groebner, Shannon, Fry, & Smith Prentice-Hall Publishing Company Copyright, 2008
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Chapter 1 Excel 2003 Examples
Random Numbers Nordstrom’s Payroll
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Random Numbers - Nordstrom’s Payroll
Issue: Nordstrom’s wishes to survey ten of their 300 employees. Employees are numbered 1 to 300. Objective: Use Excel to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and Values must be integer numbers corresponding to employee numbers
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Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll
Click on Tools Click on Data Analysis
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Random Number Generation
Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Select Random Number Generation
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Provide Required Inputs Note: Select Uniform Distribution
Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Provide Required Inputs Note: Select Uniform Distribution
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Need to convert numbers to integers
Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Need to convert numbers to integers Note: Each time you use Random Number Generation, you will get a different string of random numbers
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Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll
Highlight the Data Values Click the Decrease Decimal Button to Remove Decimal Places
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Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll
10 Random Numbers Between 0 and 300 - These are the 10 employees to be selected
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